Example sentences of "[be] [adj] more than [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is tabloid film-making in which the protagonists are cardboard cut-outs , played by lookalike actors whose portrayals , however skilful , are doomed to be little more than glorified Mike Yarwood impersonations . |
| 2 | The danger , of course , was that the new schools would be little more than half-hearted extensions of the former senior elementary schools — by 1938 , 63.3 per cent of pupils beyond the age of eleven were in separate senior elementary schools and all that was at first formally required was that such schools should change their labels . |
| 3 | Because , after all , no-one had , as yet , told him that Presley City was going to be little more than blackened rubble in just two days time . |
| 4 | Together they inadvertently ensured that their four children would be little more than emotional cripples . |
| 5 | Locke rejects this , though his arguments against Descartes 's identification of body with extension tend to be little more than initial difficulties . |
| 6 | The dedication to their appearance of stars such as the luminous , fiftyish , Catherine Deneuve , sixtyish socialites such as Marie Helene de Rothschild or Helene de Mortemart and political wives such as Bernadette Chirac and Claude Pompidou , may be much more than simple vanity and may involve no self-admiration at all . |
| 7 | In practice , few of the conceptual embellishments of the idea of the ‘ freedom of the press ’ proved to be any more than occasional glimpses of what an ideal press ought to be like . |